FredCDobbs

418 "OK, OK, OK! I'll buy you that mink coat!"

Strange thing.... when I signed on, it put me on Casablanca time. I had to change it to Mountain time on my profile page.

lz, Funny thing.... on my page one of Old Movies on YouTube, the film links show up as embeds. The URL links I made bold wtih a star symbol in front and back don't work as hot links, but the URL can be copied and pasted to a new window. Some of my links do show up as hot links. Fred

After you post your new message, try refreshing the page and your new message should appear at the top.

lz, I wonder if we need a new thread titled IF YOU ARE HAVING TROUBLE LOGGING ON, READ THIS... It took about 2 hours for me to log on this morning because I made several mistakes with my user name and pass word, and I had to get TCM to send me 4 emails, then I had to wait for each one, then I finally got a new pass word and I was able to sign on. Maybe other people, who are having trouble, need to know what kind of trouble some of the rest of us had before we finally were able to sign on. Just an idea. Fred

I can't find all my old PMs either. I had a lot of email and website addresses in them that I need.

I noticed that I can no longer find the "TEST YOUR PHOTO SIZES HERE" page. This is a helpful page to have, since a lot of us do re-sizing of big photos and reduce them down to smaller board sizes, and we do that on the TEST YOUR PHOTO SIZES HERE page so we won't mess up a regular forum thread page somewhere else with a lot of photo testing in the middle of someone else's conversation. Fred.

lz, his name seems to have been automatically changed to bansi4

Thank you. The word it deleted was PASS WORD, typed as a single word.

Font size test

Hmm, I wonder why some of my words looked like this ****?

Ha, ha, ha.... I tried to sign on and I clicked on the email address sent to me, then I found out it had changed my password but didn't tell me what the new password was. Then I discovered that the first email actually said DISREGARD AND DELETE THIS EMAIL. Ha, ha, ha. 2 hours later I finally got signed on with a new password.

Hi. I'm back.

Good afternoon everyone. Welcome aboard Flight TCM 1933. Our destination tonight is Skull Island, located in the beautiful Central Indian Ocean. http://www.bing.com/maps/?mapurl=http%3A//toolserver.org/~para/cgi-bin/kmlexport?project=en%26article=Skull_Island Our estimated flying time will be three days, so sit back, relax, and enjoy your cruise. See you when we arrive! Fred, Your Friendly Pilot

>Like they were trying to cover their bases at the box office I think you are right. This was a comedy, musical, crime drama, with a little of everything in it.

Wasn't Eleanor Powell the lady with the long hair and hoop dress in the Civil War play? I think she was in the film a lot but not in her usual dance routine or usual short haircut. She was outstanding in her cowgirl rope routine.

It's the money and fame they fall for.

Sounds like you belong on Broadway.

>Or would Ruby Stevens have made a believable Ball of Fire? I think Ruby should have kept her original name.

Robert Taylor was in one of the most stupidly-titled movies, "Quentin Durward". Sounds like the name of a weird computer nerd. So we can say that Spangler Arlington Brugh was the star of Quentin Durward.

Huh?? Did someone call me??

Ray, When I was a little kid, my family and I would listen to the radio every night. It was just like TV. We could almost see the actors and famous comedians because we had seen them in movies, so we knew what many of them looked like. So for the image of radio, we just imagined scenes from movies we had already seen. The sound effects on radio sounded real, and I always thought, as a kid, that the radio shows were made on location, even outdoors, using real cars, etc. The industry generally kept that stuff somewhat of a secret, so the audience would go along with the illusion. Fred

>I remember the movie critic Mike Medved taking Steven Spielberg to task for liberties taken with the story in Amistad (1997). I don't know the true real story, but I thought the movie was great. Very interesting. And it wasn't insulting to anyone, which is rare in a Hollywood movie about slavery.

Sorry, but I'm too lazy to read your message.

>It's always interesting in Westerns how everyone is so clean. Police detectives and robbers always wore nice suits and hats. When they fought, they would roll around on the dirty ground in their suits and hats, then get up, brush themselves off, and go back to work. It was illegal to rob a bank in the 1930s and 40s without wearing a nice suit, tie, and hat.